Title
Extraction Of Text Regions From Complex Background In Document Images By Multilevel Clustering
Abstract
Textual data plays an important role in a number of applications such as image database indexing, document understanding, and image-based web searching. The target of automatic real-life text extracting in document images without character recognition module is to identify image regions that contain only text. These textual regions can then be either input of optical character recognition application or highlighted for user focusing. In this paper we propose a method which consists of three stages-preprocessing which improves contrast of grayscale image, multi-level thresholding for separating textual region from non-textual object such as graphics, pictures, and complex background, and heuristic filter, recursive filter for text localizing in textual region. In many of these applications, it is not necessary to identify all the text regions, therefore we emphasize on identifying important text region with relatively large size and high contrast. Experimental results on real-life dataset images demonstrate that the proposed method is effective in identifying textual region with various illuminations, size and font from various types of background.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.2991/ijndc.2016.4.1.2
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NETWORKED AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multilevel, K-means, Connected Component, Thesholding
k-means clustering,Data mining,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Connected component,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
1
2211-7938
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hoai Nam Vu110.37
Tuan Anh Tran2283.22
In Seop Na34213.83
Soo-Hyung Kim419149.03